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ReviewFrontiers in psychology2020

Neural and Homeostatic Regulation of REM Sleep.

Sung-Ho Park, Franz Weber

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Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
44citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 83 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Night-to-night rapid eye movement sleep variability: A relevant marker of early amyloid-β deposition.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  15. REM refines and rescues memory representations: a new theory.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025
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  18. Prodromal dreams.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025
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  19. Characterization of direct Purkinje cell outputs to the brainstem.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sung-Ho ParkDepartment of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine, Chronobiology and Sleep Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Franz WeberDepartment of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine, Chronobiology and Sleep Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Medullary Control of REM SleepR01HL149133 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Franz L Weber · 2019 to 2026
$2.6M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL149133
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a distinct, homeostatically controlled brain state characterized by an activated electroencephalogram (EEG) in combination with paralysis of skeletal muscles and is associated with vivid dreaming. Understanding how REM sleep is controlled requires identification of the neural circuits underlying its initiation and maintenance, and delineation of the homeostatic processes regulating its expression on multiple timescales. Soon after its discovery in humans in 1953, the pons was demonstrated to be necessary and sufficient for the generation of REM sleep. But, especially within the last decade, researchers have identified further neural populations in the hypothalamus, midbrain, and medulla that regulate REM sleep by either promoting or suppressing this brain state. The discovery of these populations was greatly facilitated by the availability of novel technologies for the dissection of neural circuits. Recent quantitative models integrate findings about the activity and connectivity of key neurons and knowledge about homeostatic mechanisms to explain the dynamics underlying the recurrence of REM sleep. For the future, combining quantitative with experimental approaches to directly test model predictions and to refine existing models will greatly advance our understanding of the neural and homeostatic processes governing the regulation of REM sleep.

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brain stateneural circuits and behaviorREM sleepREM sleep homeostasissleep

Identifiers

PMID32793050
PMCPMC7385183
OpenAlexW3044617252

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